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If not now, eventually they must be or must have been "doing startups" because all businesses begin as startups. It's in the name, a startup is a company that is just getting started. Some eventually grow up into the titans of industry that we all know.

The parent is wondering why don't we see more entrepreneurs founding companies that look like they could become the next titans of industry. It seems to me that their companies either don't exist, or are currently invisible because they haven't begun gobbling up market share.

That's my plan actually. It should be a lot easier to get going than C or an LLVM backend as others are suggesting.

I think you mean contracts or defensive coding. If someone calls my code wrong they will have to think to test that particular case themselves, which is hard. Unless I've written contracts; then when it blows up they'll know what they did wrong.

Huh. You're right. That seems pretty recent, or I didn't notice the switch-over. Thank goodness.

Yeah. In this competition collaboration was discouraged. That does keep politics/alliance building skills out of the equation at the cost of worse overall final products.

You didn't do too badly this time yourself. 11th place. Looking at what he did, do you see what you could do to improve your bot further?